Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rochester, New York
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Rochester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rochester, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rochester itself.
The rest sit in City of Rochester (5), Town of Brighton (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30, 2026 On the agenda: Rochester meeting — ALPR (Sep 30)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Oct 1 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rochester
The readers mapped around Rochester break down as 3 Genetec, 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard — 2 readers
- Sawgrass Drive — 2 readers
- East Drive — 1 reader
- Norfolk Street — 1 reader
Rochester in the Monroe County picture
Monroe County has 89 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,678 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 754,068 residents and 2,604 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Rochester, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rochester. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Rochester
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Rochester — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rochester (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rochester
- On the agenda: Rochester meeting — ALPR (Sep 30)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Rochester, NY
- Pair facing slew of charges after vehicle reported stolen in Greece crashes in Rochester
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Rochester, NY
What you can do in Rochester
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Rochester
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).